The course of Topics in the Philosophy of Science is part of the program in Philosophical sciences (MA level) and is included among the complementary training activities.This course introduces some central questions in the philosophy of science and examines them critically. Through the study of classic and/or contemporary texts, students will acquire advanced knowledge of problems at the boundary between science and philosophy. They will also obtain the ability to systematically relate the philosophical and scientific tradition to the most recent developments in these areas.
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2. McTaggart J.,The unreality of time Mind 1908
3 Redondi Storie del tempo (second part), Laterza
4 Weatherall J. The physics of nothing. Yale University Press
5. Space from Zeno to Einstein, ed. by N. HUGGETT, The MIT PRESS, 200
6. Weatherall, The physics of void,
6. Callender C. Edney R. Introducing time, Icon Books and Totem Books, 2001
Programme
In general, the course will focus on the history and philosophy of space and time, giving particular emphasis to the relationship between physical and experiential time. Within this relationship, the nature of the present moment is particularly important: while physics can safely ignore such a moment, in our experience it separates an immutable past from a future that is not conceived deterministically or fatalistically but is rather regarded as open to our free decisions. We will read excerpts of classics authors in the history of philosophy that have dealt in particular with these questions. We will introduce the student to the deep link existing between chance and irreversibilityCore Documentation
1. MAZUR: THE MOTION PARADOX, Dutton, 2007 (the first three chapters)2. McTaggart J.,The unreality of time Mind 1908
3 Redondi Storie del tempo (second part), Laterza
4 Weatherall J. The physics of nothing. Yale University Press
5. Space from Zeno to Einstein, ed. by N. HUGGETT, The MIT PRESS, 200
6. Weatherall, The physics of void,
6. Callender C. Edney R. Introducing time, Icon Books and Totem Books, 2001
Reference Bibliography
Greene B., The fabric of the cosmos, pp. 171-299 Lockwood, M, The labyrinth of time, Oxford University Press, 2008 Albert D. Time and Chance, Harvard University Press, 2000 Greene B., The fabric of the cosmos, pp. 171-299 Huggett, Everywhere and everywhereType of delivery of the course
Tradizional if allowed by the COVID 19 situationType of evaluation
Seminars and reports on the part of the students. Participation of the student during the lectures